A Few Words About Me
BS/MS Student | Software Developer | Drexel Society of Artificial Intelligence Founder & President
I am a BS/MS student at Drexel University, Philadelphia. During my accelerated program, I am pursuing my Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering & Computer Engineering and my Master of Science in Computer Science. I am passionate about using web technologies with artificial intelligence and machine learning to enable people do great things.My favorite class that I took so far is Graduate Level Data Structures & Algorithms (CS521)
My favorite class that I became a Teaching Assistant for is Gradute Level Artificial Intelligence (CS510)
HONORS & AWARDS
- National Physics Olympiad Silver Medal, Turkey, 2015 (Top 12 students in the country)
- Drexel STAR Research Scholar, Undergraduate Research Leader 2017
- Drexel Global Scholar 2016
- DAAD Rise Scholarship Recipient, 2018
- Paul Peck Scholar, 2017
- Dean's List, Drexel University, 2016, 2017, 2018
RESEARCH & PUBLICATION
Here you can find my research that I have done so far.
Check out my Research
Perceptual Hashing as a Facial Image Filter
- Used Gaussian Blurring as a defense against adversarial attacks, which reported 3.6% increase in accuracy
Adversarial Attacks against Neural Networks in Audio Domain: Exploiting Principal Components
- Crafted 27 CTC white-box, and PCA black-box attacks on DeepSpeech with 100% adversarial success
- Presented research at Harvard Undergraduate Research Conference, 2020
Adversarial Attacks on Convolutional Neural Networks in Facial Recognition Domain
- Performed 10,000+ non-targeted CW attacks to DNNs and reported an improvement of %44.3 on L2 defense
- Presented at Stanford National Collegiate Research Conference, 2019
Improving Vanadium Batteries
- Simulated 2D/3D power flow in MATLAB, presented at Harvard National Collegiate Research Conference, 2017
- Scientific Publication, “Obstructed Flow Field Designs for Improved Power Density in Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries”, B. Akuzum, Yigit C. Alparslan, N. Robinson, E. Agar, E.C Kumbur, J. Applied Chemistry, 2019
Perfecting the Crime Machine
- Designed several machine learning models to predict crime type given location and time on Drexel campus.
- Presented the project to Drexel University Police Department to make recommendations.
- Applied K-Means to create clusters and used gap statistics to find the optimal number of cluster.
- Achieved a log loss of 2.43 for Random Forest when combined with unsupervised learning features such as distance of each crime point to a cluster center.
Smart IoT Devices to Monitor Grid Energy Consumption
- Created a MongoDB NoSQL database to persist sensor data coming from a smart IoT device inside houses that monitors peak load and consumer power trends.
- Worked on Ardunio WiFi module to make a POST request to a remote fileserver.
- Created dashboards for the end user to visualize the sensor data by using SAP Analytics Cloud.
TOOLS & FRAMEWORKS
Some of the tools that I have worked with are below.
React.js
React.js is a framework which supports agile application development through the use of a reusable component based interface development methodology.
Git
Git is a distributed version-control system for tracking changes in source code during software development. It is designed for coordinating work among programmers.
TensorFlow / TensorFlow.JS
Machine learning helps us create predictive models which enhance user experiences and increase user satisfaction with their touchpoints with your organization. TensorFlow is one of the most popular ML frameworks.
SAP HANA
The SAP HANA database provides enhanced analytical capabilities through the provision of a compressed, in-memory, columnar database.
SAP UI5
SAPUI5 is an application development framework which incorporates HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript in a code-once cross-platform and feature rich environment.
SAP HANA XSA
This in-database application server provides machine-level access to the in-memory analytical capabilites of the SAP HANA database.
SAP Analytics Cloud / SAP Cloud Platform
The SAC provides business datawarhousing in the cloud and SCP is SAP's Platform-as-a-Service solution run on HANA.
WebPack
This tool is used to bundle, package, split, hash and minimiize JavaScript files in the browser.
Express.js / Node.js
This is a tool on top Node.js to give a full server side experience to JavaScript.
Redis
Redis is in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache and message broker. I have paired it with PostgreSQL.
Programming Languages
Some of the languages that I have worked with are below.
LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE
- Drexel Society of Artificial Intelligence - Founder & President – Promote AI research and mentor members
- Organized nation's first student-run AI Research Conference titled "Drexel Society of Articial Intelligence AI Research Conference" - Led the conference organization committee
- DragonHacks (Drexel's very own 24-hour Hackathon) - Committee Member
- Resident Assistant - Organize educational programs to enforce healthy community on residence halls
- Teaching Assistant - Teach 25+ students in lab for introductory CS classes in Python
- Event Coordinator, French Club Peer-Mentorship Program - Awarded “Campus Awards” by the Embassy
- Drexel STAR Research Scholar; Undergraduate Research Leader; DAAD-Rise Germany Scholar 2017; Secretary, EWB
CURRENT STATISTICS
Numbers don't capture who the person truly is. However, one's passion, and inner motivation to improve's oneself can give a little glimpse of personality.
Undergraduate Credits
Graduate Credits
Publications & Conferences
Projects
M.S in Computer Science GPA
Degrees
Organizations Founded
Members Recruited for Drexel AI
My Portfolio
Please check my GitHub Profile to see the source code of some projects.
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ChatBot for Students
Used Google DialogFlow to create a Slack ChatBot for International student visa questions.
Block Chain Implementation
A Simple Block Chain Simulator that runs on browser with coin mining, block creation, and verification support.
Personalized AI Hub
Developed Full stack app with Django, React, MySQL and Docker to create a Churn Rate Predictor.
PageRank in Hadoop
Implement Google's Search Engine algorithm, PageRank in Hadoop Distributed File System Storage
Food Image Classifier
Reimplemented the classifier and mentored Drexel AI members about the source code of this image classifier.
Intern Dashboard
UI5 and SAP HANA Database to help early talents at SAP. Mainly did product support and bug fixes.
ChatBot
Used UI5 and SAP Conversational AI to create a ChatBot deployed to SAP Cloud Platform.
Job Portal
Used React for front-end, Node-Express API for back-end, Redis for storage and Cron Worker for Recurrent Fetching.
ChatPlace
Anonymous Chat Platform to Manage Workforce’s Work Life Balance and Promote Mental Well-being.
Drexel Crime Prediction
Used Python to build predictive machine learning models, study crime hotspots and prediction on Drexel campus.
SAP Webchat & AI
I contribute to SAP Conversational AI Webchat open source Github repo.
Paymoo (A Venmo Clone)
I simulated users, added password encryption, automatic Avatar URL and uuid keys generation to a Venmo-like app.
RapidSign (A DocuSign Clone)
RapidSign is a PDF sharing and a signing platform similar to DocuSign.
TeamGogoEmail
TeamGogoEmail is an unlimited and free API to handle serverless HTML form submissions.
Sharktail Server
Sharktail allows you to stream your terminal to web page. Its client is deployed as NPM package.
Linkify
Created a Personal Brand Management App that shortens URLs and tracks usage analytics.
Wall Jump Game
Simple browser game in HTML5 deployed to GitHub pages and Google Play Store.
Climb Blocks Game
Popular game "Climb Blocks" died in 2020 when Flash got deprecated. I migrated this popular game to HTML5 on GitHub pages.
Drive Up
A mobile app that alerts drowsy drivers when they start to doze off at wheel published to Google Play Store.
FreeFoodBook
Developed a full stack web app that tells you nearby restaurants with food deals.
HELP UP
Anonymous Non-Emergency Peer Support Network to Help People with their Mental Well-being.
Slide Puzzle: Web App
My web app submission to Flutter Puzzle Hack 2021.
Slide Puzzle: Android App
My Android app submission to Flutter Puzzle Hack 2021.
Open Source Projects
I ❤️ open source.
React-Feedback Component
React-Feedback-Popup is a blazingly fast and highly customizable component to get user feedback.
React-Made-By Component
React-Made-By is a customizable component to display author name, image and slogan: "Made with ☕ by Yigit".
Sharktail CLI (NPM Package)
Sharktail allows you to stream your terminal to web page. I created an NPM package as a cli client. The server is here.
Deepextract Python Package
A Python package to parse JSON, YAML files and extract deeply nested keys.
Talks About AI/ML
Some videos where I was asked to talk about Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning research.
Drexel AI/ML Reading Group
As part of Drexel AI/ML Weekly Reading Group, I talk about one of the most cited papers of 2018: Attention is All You Need.
Editing for a Peer-Review Journal
I have taken an initititive and created a simplified research e-journal called SimpleX. I have seen so many students doing research as class projects, side-projects and not talk about it. I wanted to create a platform where they can publish a simplified version of their research and make it available to public interest. It is called SimpleX because we aim to make the unknown simple to understand. If you want to publish, send a 3-4 page simplified version of your research to publishsimplex@gmail.com
SimpleX
SimpleX is an research e-journal to make the unknown simple to understand. It is a platform to exchange big ideas about science, culture and people. We are looking for writers and editors. We are looking for 3-4 page write-ups of your research to be published with us. If you would like to contribute, you can also send an email!
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